Charles E. Grassley Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, initiated an inquiry to determine whether guns traveled to Mexico through inadvertence or deliberate policy on the part of U.S. law enforcement.

Almost certainly by inadvertence, the book is also a journal of the tedium and essential pointlessness of spying—in short, a reliable description of the mundane realities of life in that hushed suburb of the real world, the intelligence community.